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Intermediality, Multimodality and Learning (IMS Literacy)

IMS Literacy, a research cluster within Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), explores how intermedia and multimodal knowledge can be developed into creative, inclusive and flexible teaching methods.

Understanding mix of modes and media

  • supports the teaching of language and literature in an increasingly audiovisual culture,
  • provides a flexible media literacy that helps to navigate in the contemporary online media landscape, 
  • offers skills for an innovative and varied teaching methods to increase diversity and inclusion

IMS Literacy builds an international network on intermedial literacy. It develops workshops and micro-credential courses for teachers on using the diversity of modes and media in productive ways.

Recent events have explored intermediality in teaching, comics and graphic novels in teaching literature and language, (in English and Swedish) and media and ecological questions